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[ts-7000] Re: Module ppp.o not found in TS-7260

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Module ppp.o not found in TS-7260
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:53:00 -0000

--- In  "Kok Hua" <> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I am using a TS-7260 board running Linux 2.4.26-ts11 kernel, with a TS-GSM1 + 
> WaveCOM Q64 GSM modem on-board. 
> 
> From a terminal emulator, I am able to control the GSM modem to activate a 
> PDP context, using AT commands AT+CGDCONT and AT+CGACT.
> 
> But when I tried to do PPP dialup using pppd, I got the following error 
> message: 
> 
> $ pppd /dev/tts/0 115200 modem crtscts -detach noipdefault connect 
> '/usr/sbin/chat -v -s -f /etc/ppp/chat/gprs'
> pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because
> the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
> included in the kernel configuration.  If PPP was included as a
> module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'.  If that fails, check that
> ppp.o exists in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net.
> See README.linux file in the ppp distribution for more details.
> 
> I tried '/sbin/modprobe -v ppp' but failed.
> 
> $ /sbin/modprobe -v ppp
> insmod    ppp
> insmod: ppp.o: no module by that name found
> modprobe: failed to load module ppp
> 
> There is no ppp.o module under /lib/modules/2.4.26-ts11. The directory 'net' 
> is not even there.
> 
> Would like to know how to get the ppp.o module installed?
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> KokHua


You need to modprobe ppp_generic then modprobe ppp_async.

Martin
>




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